Fred Jagueneau
dal 24/4/2012 al 14/5/2012
Segnalato da
24/4/2012
Fred Jagueneau
Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris
Dreaming of Zerzura, curated by Nan Goldin. A tireless globetrotter, Jagueneau travels alone for months every year to a new country, from where he returns with Polaroids of stunning landscapes and portraits. Goldin is not only eagerly supportive of his work but also offers her intrinsic and profound vision while digging into the essence of Jagueneau's sensual, contemplative and otherworldly pictures.
curated by Nan Goldin
After studying photography and art, Fred Jagueneau has been an assistant to the most in demand fashion photographers, including Mario Testino, Paolo Roversi, Steven Meisel, and Annie Leibovitz. In parallel, from 1994, Jagueneau began working on his own Polaroid black and white photographs which led him to travel to Bolivia, Chile, Czech Republic, Ireland, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Bulgaria, Zanzibar, Cuba, and Burma. He participated with Nan Goldin in SCOPOPHILIA (love the look, pictures of paintings), exhibition at the Louvre Museum until 31 Jan 2011 in the framework of the “Carte Blanche” given to acclaimed French director Patrice Chéreau. This high profile teamwork kick started Goldin and Jaguenau professional and artistic bonding.
A tireless globetrotter, Jagueneau travels alone for months every year to a new country, from where he returns with Polaroids of stunning landscapes and portraits. Nan Goldin is not only eagerly supportive of his work but also offers her intrinsic and profound vision while digging into the essence of Jagueneau’s sensual, contemplative and otherworldly pictures. His work of black and white or color polaroid’s embodies the substance of his photographic journey around the world. Nan Goldin has chosen the Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, as the exclusive setting where she will curate in April 2012 a selection of Jagueneau’s recent works. A unique proposition, from the photographer who has been exploring bodies and souls for three decades, the exhibition will present 75 pictures of an editing in hundreds revealing an original and generous project and a young photographer whose mesmerizing clichés will have to be counted with…
“Nan has chosen to rely solely on her instincts and her feelings, through editing over several months she chosed images that moved her deeply. She made piles: No, yes, must be, maybe. This choice, based on personal affects, is without Nan hearing a word from the history of each image. There is no geographical, political, chronological link or otherwise. An image which moves her, this is a must be. One that goes by several times in her hands is a maybe because she wants to be sure that there is something more than aesthetics or the image making in its final choice. She wants each photo to tell a story not like in a novel, in which we imagine the scene and the characters. It is this empathy that Nan Goldin feels strongly about some of my photos that will generate the selection of about 75 images…”
Fred Jagueneau 2012
Fred Jagueneau was born in 1966 in Saintes, he lives and works in Paris.
Nan Goldin was born in 1953 in Washington, She lives and works between Paris, London and New York.
Image: Fred Jagueneau, Kerndwa1, 2003 Polaroïd 665 Print on Hahnemühle paper, carbon ink — 60 × 80
Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt
9, place des Vosges - Paris
Hours: Monday - Friday, 13-18
Admission free